Hofstra University, which has fielded a football team for the past 69 years, is dropping the sport. The school said it cut the program because of costs and fading interest and will use the $4.5 ...

No more football games were scheduled for the Hofstra Pride or the UMass Minutemen past Nov. 21, 2009. Their fates were already sealed as neither team was playoff bound after the Pride shot down ...

Hofstra coach Joe Gardi wore a hat with the initials FDNY during Saturday’s game to honor Glenn Wilkinson. Wilkinson is a former Hofstra football player (Class of 1978) and New York Fire ...

Hofstra's announcement came one week after another CAA school, Northeastern University, announced that it would be cutting football for similar reasons. The sudden news came as a shock to Ken ...

It first came to our attention Friday morning that we weren't the only ones on Long Island scratching our heads as to why there would be no more College Football played at Hofstra University.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Hofstra co-captain Luke Bonus lives in a house just a short walk from the stadium where he played college football. "I'm reminded by it 50 times a day, and that's not an ...

Hofstra University announced Thursday that it is eliminating its football program. The rationale for the decision was quite similar to that offered by Northeastern University last month in making a ...

They no longer were teammates. Hofstra no longer had a football team. When I saw the news on my computer screen that Thursday morning -- that Hofstra was eliminating its football program -- I winced.

Hofstra football coach Joe Gardi enjoyed the challenge and affirmation of taking unheralded high school players and building them into championship-caliber athletes. He often talked more about his ...

Joe Gardi, who was responsible for ushering Hofstra football into the scholarship era, died Wednesday from complications of a stroke suffered eight days ago, his son Dave confirmed. He was 71.